George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
knowing judging judgment
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
people bees impatient
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
human-nature exception humans
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
girl stones handsome
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
genius turns steady
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
friendship believe eye
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
dream men vision
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
thinking smell rose
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
disappointment suffering faithfulness
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
thinking understanding experience
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
men duty
Man cannot choose his duties.
trying distrust difficult
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
fall love-is feet
The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.
heart men idols
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.